BOISE, I.D. – Starting a five-game road trip, the South Carolina Stingrays dropped the first of three meetings this week with the Idaho Steelheads, 6-1, on Wednesday evening at Idaho Central Arena. 

Idaho (38-19-5-1) capitalized early while on the power play at home. Kaleb Pearson scored 8:21 into the first period giving the Steelheads a 1-0 lead. Less than two minutes later, Connor Punnett doubled Idaho’s advantage, putting South Carolina (40-20-1-2) in a two-goal hole just over 10 minutes in.

Late in the first, Idaho went to the power play again, where Liam Malmquist gave the Steelheads a 3-0 lead heading into the first intermission.

In the second period, the Stingrays generated chances, outshooting the Steelheads 16-7, but it was Idaho adding to its advantage. Nick Portz scored with 4:32 remaining in the frame, and South Carolina went to the third trailing 4-0.

Coming out of the second intermission, South Carolina struck less than a minute in. Simon Pinard tapped home his team-leading 24th goal of the season cutting the deficit to three, 4-1.

After Pinard’s goal, the Stingrays pressed for more. South Carolina went to the power play twice over the next eight minutes, but were unable to capitalize with the man-advantage.

With just over six minutes remaining, Portz notched his second goal of the night building the Idaho lead back to four, 5-1. Less than two minutes later, Portz finished off a hat-trick with his third goal of the night, capping a 6-1 win for Idaho over South Carolina.

The Stingrays and Steelheads meet for the second of three meetings on Friday evening. Puck drop is set for 9:10 p.m. EDT from the Idaho Central Arena.

ESTERO, Fla. — The Savannah Ghost Pirates, proud ECHL affiliate of the Florida Panthers, fell 7–3 to the Florida Everblades on Wednesday night at Hertz Arena.

Florida opened the scoring just 3:07 into the first period when Jesse Lansdell worked his way in and finished his own rebound to make it 1–0.

The Everblades extended their lead with 5:15 remaining in the period as Oliver Chau scored from below the right circle to make it 2–0. Florida added another before the end of the frame when Reid Duke converted a Hudson Elynuik pass from the slot on the power play, giving the Everblades a 3–0 lead after one.

Florida made it 4–0 at the 6:51 mark of the second period when Craig Needham scored from the left side near the crease.

Savannah got on the board at 8:15 of the second as Will Riedell snapped a shot in from the point. Ivan Chukarov and Nick Granowicz recorded the assists.

The Everblades responded late in the period, with Needham netting his second of the game after multiple chances in front to extend the lead to 5–1 heading into the third.

Florida added two quick goals early in the third period—scored by Logan Lambdin and Tarun Fizer within 16 seconds—to push the lead to 7–1.

The Ghost Pirates answered at the 6:46 mark of the third when Dennis Cesana found Reece Vitelli in the left circle, and he buried the chance to make it 7–2. Vitelli added his second of the night on a 5-on-3 power play later in the period, finishing from the left circle off a feed from Cristophe Tellier to round out the scoring at 7–3.

Cam Johnson earned the win for Florida, stopping 21 of 24 shots. Vinnie Purpura made 22 saves on 29 shots for Savannah, while Noah Giesbrecht did not face a shot in relief.

The Ghost Pirates continue their road trip Friday night against the Florida Everblades with puck drop scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET. The game will be streamed live on FloHockey and broadcast on Mixlr. Tickets and additional information about upcoming home games are available at ghostpirateshockey.com.

The Tulsa Oilers, proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks and the AHL’s San Diego Gulls, and powered by Community Care, fell 1-0 to the Trois Rivières at the BOK Center on Wednesday night.

Each team left a neck-and-neck first period with nine shots and zero goals on the scoreboard.

The Oilers outshot Trois-Rivières 15-9 in the middle frame, but again both netminders stood tall, sending the game scoreless into the final frame.

Cèdric Desruisseaux tipped Landon Fuller’s full speed point shot from the low slot, down to the ice behind the goal line, breaking the deadlock and sealing Trois-Rivières’ 1-0 victory.

David Tendeck stopped 31 of 32 shots, while Hunter Jones halted all 34 chances faced.

The close loss drops Tulsa’s record against Canadian teams to 9-1-0-0 since joining the ECHL.

The Oilers and Lions square off for another battle on Saturday, March 28 at 7:05 p.m. at the BOK Center.